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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:39:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brad Chapman <jabiru_croc@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: What patches I need for s stable 2.5.x
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Mr. Cox,

--- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 22:02, Brad Chapman wrote:
> > Everyone,
> > 
> >       I have been following some of the threads on linux-kernel and have
> read
> > about the IDE problems. I know about Jens' 2.4.x IDE foreport, and I was 
> > wondering: what other patches should I apply, besides the 2.4.x IDE
> foreport,
> > to ensure a stable 2.5.x kernel?
> 
> The IDE stuff might get you a usable 2.5, even then the error handling
> is not correct in all cases so treat it with care. On my test boxes the
> foreport didnt hang the machine the way 2.5.* did so its an improvement.
> You might just want to follow the 2.5.*-dj tree though
>

        ACK. Are there any gotchas associated with the 2.5.x-dj tree? I 
haven't really studied it up to this point.

Brad 


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